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Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up


Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.


Archived version: archive.is/20250902200925/404m…


Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up


An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.

Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. “We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and encrypt all its data,” the message on the site said, according to screenshots taken before the site went down on Tuesday. “If you are a user of this website, you are urged to contact the owners and insist that they pay our ransom. If this ransom is not paid, we will release all data publicly on this Tor site, including source code and personal data of users. Additionally, we will submit all artwork to AI companies to be added to training datasets.”

LunaLock promised to delete the stolen data and allow users to decrypt their files if the site’s owner paid a $50,000 ransom. “Payment is accepted in either Bitcoin or Monero,” the notice put on the site by the hackers said. The ransom note included a countdown timer that gave the site’s owners several days to cough up the cash. “If you do not pay, all files will be leaked, including personal user data. This may cause you to be subject to fines and penalties under the GDPR and other laws.”

Most of LunaLock’s threat is standard language for a ransomware attack. What’s new is the explicit threat to give the site’s data—which includes the unique artwork and information of its users—to AI companies. “This is the first time I see a threat actor use training AI models as part of their extortion tactic,” Tammy Harper, a senior threat intelligence researcher at the cyber security company Flare, told 404 Media. “Before this it was kind of an assumption that victim data could end up being shared through AI models. Especially if the groups use it to find leverage and process the data to calculate ransom amounts.”

Harper said that this kind of threat could be effective against artists. “It’s a very sensitive subject for this type of victim (an art marketplace.) LunaLock is definitely using and hoping for the clients and artists of the victim to pressure them into paying the ransom.”
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It’s unclear how LunaLock would get the artistic data to AI companiesOf course, it might be as simple as setting up an independent website full of the data on the open web and waiting for one of the LLMs crawlers to come and devour the information. Or just starting a chat with the companies’ respective chatbots and uploading the images, depending on each company’s policy on how they train their AIs based on user uploads.

As of this writing, Artists&Clients is down and attempts to reach it trigger a Cloudflare error. But users and cyber security accounts are sharing screenshots of the ransomware note on social media. Google also indexed the ransom note and as of writing, it appears in the description of the site when you look it up in the search engine.

Artists&Clients did not respond to 404 Media’s request for a comment.


in reply to BrikoX

if the ai models are happy using stolen data, whos to say they havent already scraped the site themselves.

if your data is on the net, its already being swiped i think.

i wouldnt pay it if i were them. as if they arent gonna sell the data anyway for a lil extra cash, morals mean nothing to thieves.

in reply to phonics

<...> morals mean nothing to thieves.


Morals they don't care about, but reputation is what their whole business is built around. It's very rare that hacker groups release the content if their demands are met. At the same time, you might become a juicy target for other groups if you pay and are stupid enough to not secure your systems and educate your staff moving forward.



Rights group investigation reveals government forces executed civilians in southern Syria


Amnesty International released a new investigative report on Tuesday detailing extrajudicial executions of Druze civilians by the Syrian government and affiliated forces in the Suwayda governorate on July 15-16.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/jurist.org/n…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Trump haltigas libropakaĵojn de UEA al Usono

La libroservo de UEA ne plu povas sendi pakaĵojn al Usono. Tio estas unu el la sekvoj de la kaosa doganpolitiko de Donald Trump. Usono unuflanke nuligis regulojn pri sendogana sendado de pakaĵoj ĝis certa valoro. Ĉar nun mankas ajnaj novaj reguloj, simple ne eblas sendi pakaĵojn el Eŭropo al Usono.

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German Court Rules Against Apple’s ‘CO2-Neutral’ Watch Advertising


in reply to silence7

For anyone still typing CO2 instead of CO₂:

Just put “CO₂” into your text replacement, autocorrect, espanso config and get taken seriously. please?

in reply to silence7

Only local and only looks like the real deal, but definitely better than nothing. 👍🏼


Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital


“My child should be in a safe, clean place, getting proper treatment. But here I am, on the floor, with no place to sit.”


Archived version: archive.is/20250902233117/drop…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.




UK sentencing bill to introduce veto powers over sentencing guidelines


The UK government introduced new legislation which will require the Justice Secretary and the Lord or Lady Chief Justice to approve Sentencing Council proposed guidelines for courts.



University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating


By MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025

A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.

Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.

All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on Gaza on 21 May 2024. Shapiro was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.



University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35600642

By MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025
A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.

Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.

All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on Gaza on 21 May 2024. Shapiro was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.




University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating


By MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025

A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.

Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.

All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on Gaza on 21 May 2024. Shapiro was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.





Cloudflare hit by data breach in Salesloft Drift supply chain attack


Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-hit-by-data-breach-in-salesloft-drift-supply-chain-attack/

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Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital


[article contains many interviews and photos of mothers at the hospital.]

from Drop Site News
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Sep 02, 2025

“This is the only hospital still providing pediatric medical care, after several other hospitals—like Al-Durra Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Beit Hanoun Hospital—have all been put out of service,” Dr. Mohammad Madi, the head of the Pediatrics Department at Al-Rantisi, told Drop Site. “Now only Rantisi Children’s Hospital remains. It is the only hospital providing medical care for children.”


Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35598947

[article contains many interviews and photos of mothers at the hospital.]

from Drop Site News
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Sep 02, 2025

“This is the only hospital still providing pediatric medical care, after several other hospitals—like Al-Durra Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Beit Hanoun Hospital—have all been put out of service,” Dr. Mohammad Madi, the head of the Pediatrics Department at Al-Rantisi, told Drop Site. “Now only Rantisi Children’s Hospital remains. It is the only hospital providing medical care for children.”




Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital


[article contains many interviews and photos of mothers at the hospital.]

from Drop Site News
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Sep 02, 2025

“This is the only hospital still providing pediatric medical care, after several other hospitals—like Al-Durra Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Beit Hanoun Hospital—have all been put out of service,” Dr. Mohammad Madi, the head of the Pediatrics Department at Al-Rantisi, told Drop Site. “Now only Rantisi Children’s Hospital remains. It is the only hospital providing medical care for children.”





Pennsylvania AG Office says ransomware attack behind recent outage


The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General announced that a ransomware attack is behind the ongoing two-week service outage.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pennsylvania-ag-office-says-ransomware-attack-behind-recent-outage/

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in reply to BrikoX

The latest statement did not comment on the possibility of sensitive data being exfiltrated during the ransomware attack. However, if the investigation reveals that data has been stolen, affected individuals will be notified.


Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support cases


Palo Alto Networks suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift breach to access its Salesforce instance.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/palo-alto-networks-data-breach-exposes-customer-info-support-cases/

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Air Canada Flight Attendants May Vote Down The Wage Package


While the proposed wage increases are appreciable, they fail to make up for past losses and pale in comparison to the increases secured by Air Canada pilots last year.




When Insiders Become the Threat


I was in the room for this. It still has me a bit shook


Google not required to sell Chrome, federal judge rules in antitrust case


A US judge on Tuesday rejected the government's demand that Google sell its Chrome web browser as part of a major antitrust case but imposed sweeping requirements to restore competition in online search.

The landmark ruling came after Judge Amit Mehta found in August 2024 that Google illegally maintained monopolies in online search through exclusive distribution agreements worth billions of dollars annually.

#tech


in reply to silence7

Good, if you never give up the fight, they can’t win. We have to be even more stubborn than they are.
in reply to silence7

That's what an abusive relationship looks like.

He will punch you again baby.



Vibe coding job postings gain momentum among tech companies


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Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements


cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36778872

::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News.
:::

230-page PDF.

Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.

The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.




Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements


::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News;
- Reddit.
:::

230-page PDF.

Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.

The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.



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in reply to Pro

Fucken boo

We need an open standard browser that isnt owned by monied interests.



Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements


cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36778872

::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News.
:::

230-page PDF.

Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.

The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.




Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements


::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News;
- Reddit.
:::

230-page PDF.

Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.

The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.





Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements


cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36778872

::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News.
:::

230-page PDF.

Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.

The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.




Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements


::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News;
- Reddit.
:::

230-page PDF.

Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.

The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.





Sanders, Jackson, Platner Take Aim at Oligarchy With Maine Labor Day Rally




Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements


::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News;
- Reddit.
:::

230-page PDF.

Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.

The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.

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First tranche of Epstein docs released by House Oversight Committee




Michael Hudson: Eurasian World Order - New Global Governance




Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case





Austria reaffirms neutrality, rules out NATO membership


in reply to daydrinkingchickadee

Austria is doing the right thing. I hope America leaves/dissolves NATO soon so that we can make peace with Russia.
in reply to WindAqueduct

Saving this comment to see if/when that happens and Russia finds another excuse, your viewpoint has changed.



Getting "invalid_bot_action" when trying to up- or downvote something.


Pretty much the title. Is my account treated like a bot account? My ISP gives me new IP addresses often, there is no way to get a fixed address.
in reply to anothernobody

You're welcome. You have probably checked it by mistake. It is a bit confusing as there are about 10 checkboxes in the settings 😀
in reply to iso

The display of my phone is broken so I guess I must have checked it by accident.


The state of Linux phones in 2025


Linux phones are still behind android and iPhone, but the gap shrank a surprising amount while I wasn’t looking. These are damn near usable day to day phones now! But there are still a few things that need done and I was wondering what everyone’s thoughts on these were:

1 - tap to pay. I don’t see how this can practically be done. Like, at all.

2 - android auto/apple CarPlay emulation. A Linux phones could theoretically emulate one of these protocols and display a separate session on the head unit of a car. But I dont see any kind of project out there that already does this in an open-source kind of way. The closest I can find are some shady dongles on amazon that give wireless CarPlay to head units that normally require USB cables. It can be done, but I don't see it being done in our community.

3 - voice assistants. wether done on device or phoning into our home servers and having requests processed there, this should be doable and integrated with convenient shortcuts. Home assistant has some things like this, and there’s good-old Mycroft blowing around out there still. Siri is used every day by plenty of people and she sucks. If that’s the benchmark I think our community can easily meet that.

I started looking at Linux phones again because I loathe what apple is doing to this UI now and android has some interesting foldables but now that google is forcing Gemini into everything and you can’t turn it off, killing third party ROMS, and getting somehow even MORE invasive, that whole ecosystem seems like it’s about to march right off a cliff so its not an option anymore for me.

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in reply to muusemuuse

I don't use any of the "needs" you mention (phone payments, carplay, voice anything) and can't see any of them as necessary. I can see thinking of them as cool, but that is different. I don't particularly think they're cool, but that's just me.

That said, Linux is mostly a desktop system with a CLI and some GUI tools. Phones as we know them have considerably different requirements. Linux could be underneath it all, like it is in Android, but at the end there is a lot more besides LInux and its apps.

I did use Meego/Maemo for a while (Nokia N900 and N9) and they had nice aspects, but the phones were way too small and slow.

in reply to muusemuuse

I switched to GrapheneOS like 4 years ago and at first I was bummed that I could no longer tap my phone to pay. But it's fine. I still go out with my wallet in my pocket, so it's no problem to just tap my bank card really... I'll take privacy over convenience thanks